Person:Henry Jeanneret (1)

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Addresses:Oxford, England 1817-22
Paris, France 1823
London, England 1824
Edinburgh, Scotland 1825
London, England 1826-9
Sydney, NSW 1829-1837
Van Diemen's Land 1837 (shipping record)
Port Arthur, VDL 1838
Brisbane Street, Hobart, VDL 1840 (Colonial Times)
Flinders Island 1842-4, 1846-7
Launceston, VDL 1848-1850
London, England 1851
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England 1859 (Medical Register)

References:Gibbney HJ, Smith AG. Biographical register 1788-1939. Canberra : Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1987
Rutledge M. Charles Edward Jeanneret. Australian Dictionary of Biography [Henry his father born London 1802 etc etc]
Medical register. General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the UK, 1860 [Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire LSA 1824 MD Ed 1825]
Ford E. Bibliography of Australian Medicine 1790-1900. Sydney : Sydney University Press, 1976
Historical Records of Australia
Pearn J. Medicine and Botany. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 1990
Pearn J. Doctor in the garden. Brisbane : Amphion Press, 2001
News. Hobart Town Courier 12 December 1829 [Dr. Jeanneret on "Tranmere" for Sydney]
Birth. Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 13 February 1834 [lady of Dr. Jeanneret of a son]
Shipping intelligence. Hobart Town Courier 7 April 1837 [Mrs Jeanneret and child on "Francis Freeling" from Sydney]
To let. Colonial Times 26 January 1841
Shipping news. Courier (Hobart) 13 April 1850 [Dr. Jeanneret, Mrs. Jeanneret and child, Mr. C. E. Master H. T. Master F. C. and Miss Jeanneret]
Clearances. Sydney Morning Herald 17 June 1850 [Dr and Mrs Jeanneret and four children for London]

JEANNERET, Henry, 71, Great Tichfield-street, Portland-place, and 48, Queen's road, St. John's-wood, Lond. — M.D. Edin. 1825 ; L.S.A. 1824 ; L.R.C.S.Edin. 1825 ; B.L. Paris, 1822.

Before the Judge of the County Court of Gloucestershire, holden at the Shirehall, Gloucester, on Thursday the 20th day of June, 1861. Henry Jeanneret, formerly of No. 15, George-street, Bryanston-square, then of Glen Cottage, Maida-hill, Paddington, then of No. 19, St. Petersburg-place, Bayswater, • then of No. 19, Brompton-row, all in the county of Middlesex, Physician and Patentee, then of Charlton Kings, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, then of No, 2, Grafton Terrace, then of No. 11, York Terrace, then of No. 7, Hewlett-street, then of No. 4, Blenheim Terrace, and late of No, 3, Carlton-street, all in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Physician, sued as Henry Jeaneret.

THE LONDON GAZETTE, MAY 14, 1861.

Further, the resultant Inquiry revealed the assistance provided by the Anglican catechist Robert Clarke, who was also in some conflict with Dr Jeanneret. The recurring historical mistake, challenged by Reynolds, has been to assume that the Aborigines themselves were essentially apolitical and that effective action was ultimately a white initiated affair. In this interpretation, the Aborigines become pawns in the white world of realpolitik as Clarke manipulates their grievances for his own ends.14

Except for the period from 1839 to 1845, Robert Clarke lived with the Tasmanian Aboriginals as catechist from 1834 until his death while living at Oyster Cove in 1850. There have been varied judgments on Clarke, both in praise and condemnation but, as with Knopwood, they seem unfairly strong. Some of the contemporary criticisms made of him actually may speak in his favour of providing, by the standards of the time, a fairly flexible and culturally adaptable Gospel message with a comparatively relaxed attitude to some of the associated British Christian cultural practices. Robinson complained that ‘when his eyes are open … he is an inveterate smoker and is very uncleanly in his person.’ Governor Denison found him ‘incapable of exercising any proper control over the natives’.15 Jeanneret accused him of cruel treatment of the children in his care but, given the Aboriginal view of this particular commandant, even this accusation could disguise a virtue. One boss complained to Hobart of Clarke’s commitment to teach the Gospel first. This referred to the rigorous contemporary debate throughout British Christendom between those who believed preaching and understanding the Gospel must come before civilisation and cultural change could occur and those who believed the Gospel could never be heard until primitive habits had been abandoned. Clarke had an ally in Arthur and indeed among the most prominent evangelical thinking at the time. The Colonial Secretary’s reply upheld the view of the catechist: ‘ In truth, the inculcation of the first principles of the religion … of the Bible, is the most effectual mode of introducing civilisation.’ And there was to be no interference with him.16

One Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, Bessy Clarke, told Bonwick some years after Clarke’s death that he was ‘a very good man. All the blackfellows love him.’ 17 Plomley, on the other hand, sees him as the worst of a bad bunch who ‘stands out as an incubus whose behaviour was seriously detrimental to the welfare of all’.18

God’s Own Country? The Anglican Church and Tasmanian Aborigines ©James Boyce 2001

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Public Member Trees: (Note: not considered a reliable primary source)
   Ancestry Family Tree.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Butts of Marriage Licenses, 1813–1835, 1894. (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;)
   Series Title: Marriages by Special License, 1832-1834; NRS Number: NRS 1037; Reel Number: 2386; Volume Number: 4/6031.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} England. 1851 Census Returns for England and Wales. (
   Kew, Richmond, Greater London TW9 4DU, United Kingdom:
   The National Archives (abbreviated TNA), formerly the UK General Register Office.)
   Class: HO107; Piece: 1491; Folio: 866; Page: 16; GSU roll: 87819-87820.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 England. Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970. (Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Surrendered to the Non-Parochial Registers Commissions of 1837 and 1857 held by The National Archives of the United Kingdom; Kew, Surrey, England: Ancestry.com ).
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 England. National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations),1858 onwards. (Ancestry.com).
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} England. Christening Records, 1530-1906 (database)
   Place: St Mary Colechurch, London, Eng; Collection: Dr. William's Library; Nonconformist Registers; Date Range: 1802 - 1802; Film Number: 813807.
7. ↑ .

   Class: HO107; Piece: 1491; Folio: 866; Page: 16; GSU roll: 87819-87820